Portable Equipment Status is defined as pressure equipment that is either:
- Truck or trailer mounted.
- Skid mounted and intended to be relocated multiple times in a year.
Examples of portable pressure equipment include:
- Steam boilers used in association with oil drilling or oil well servicing rigs.
- Steam boilers for culvert or drain system steaming.
- Pressure vessels on vehicles such as highway stripe-painting trucks.
- Gas and casing gas compressors.
- Pressure vessels used as portable test treaters or separators.
In order for pressure equipment to be considered for portable equipment status, the pressure equipment must:
- Be installed on a truck, trailer or skid whose business purpose requires multiple location changes in a year.
- Have a valid licence to operate.
- Be protected by a pressure relief device whose discharge piping is not connected to any header system not fully contained on the truck, trailer or skid.
It is the responsibility of the owner, lessee or representative to track the location of the equipment at all times. Portable Equipment status may be cancelled if the owner, lessee or representative is not able to provide TSASK with the location of the equipment for inspection and/or audit purposes.
Application for Portable Equipment Status
Here is what’s new:
- Combined Application Process: Portable Status will now be a part of the Installation Permit Application, eliminating the need for a separate form. Should you require portable status, you can do so in an added section without having to complete a separate application.
- No Extra Cost: Applying for Portable Status won’t cost extra. If you require portable status, the Installation Permit fees remain at $95 for standard processing or $190 for expedited.
To add portable status to existing equipment, just email boilerpermits@tsask.ca. We will send you an application for this purpose at no additional charge.
Once your application has been reviewed and approved for portable status, it will be reflected on your licence to operate.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
If the equipment is intended to be moved around and may move multiple times in a year, then you likely should request portable status. Ultimately, TSASK will not be tracking the number of moves a piece of equipment makes in a year. If it does not move in a year, you will not lose the portable status. However, if you do not have portable status, each time you move the equipment, a TSASK Inspector will be required to inspect the installation at the new location.
TSASK may suspend or cancel the portable status if you, the owner, cannot locate the equipment when TSASK requests a location either for the regular TSASK inspection or for inventory reconciliation, etc. Owners shall know at all times where the portable equipment is located or risk having the status suspended or cancelled.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
No. The owner is responsible for determining if the equipment meets the criteria for portable status. TSASK Inspectors may suggest and, sometimes require, that an owner apply for portable equipment status. Finally, the only person who may approve portable equipment status is the Chief Inspector.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
The owner is responsible to determine if their equipment meets the criteria for portable equipment status. TSASK defines portable equipment as pressure equipment that may be moved to new locations multiple times per year. If your equipment qualifies, then you may apply for portable status.
Remember that each piece of equipment must have a current licence to operate. Multiple pieces of equipment on a truck, trailer or skid are each deemed to be portable. That is, if a skid has 6 pressure vessels, then the owner must apply for all 6 to have portable status.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
In order to use the oilfield boiler again in Saskatchewan, you will need to submit the following to TSASK:
- TSK-0001 Installation or Repair/Alteration permit
- ABSA Rig Boiler Inspection Report and ABSA Certificate of Inspection (ensure extra TSASK requirements have been filled in)
Once TSASK receives all of the information above, your licence to operate will be processed. Please refer to Clause 5.1.3 in Information Paper IP-2016-10-02 Additional Information and Requirements for Oilfield Boilers for more information.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Provided you supply TSASK with the ABSA internal inspection report and the Certificate of Inspection every year when you renew your Saskatchewan licence to operate, there will be no problem moving the boiler back and forth between the provinces. Please refer to clause 5.1.3 in Information Paper IP-2016-10-02 Additional Information and Requirements for Oilfield Boilers for more information.